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The idea of reusing software components has been present in software engineering for
several decades. Although the software industry developed massively in recent decades, …

The development of defect tests is still a very labour intensive process that demands a high-level
of domain knowledge, concentration and problem awareness from software engineers. …

This paper describes a large, unabridged data-set of Java source code gathered and shared
as part of the Merobase Component Finder project of the Software-Engineering Group at …

Still today, the development of effective and high-quality software tests is an expensive and
very labor intensive process. It demands a high amount of problem awareness, domain …

Effective software reuse has long been regarded as an important foundation for a more
engineering-like approach to software development. Proactive recommendation systems that …

The applicability of software reuse approaches in practice has long suffered from a lack of
reusable material, but this situation has changed virtually over night: the rise of the open …

The increasing availability of software in all kinds of repositories has renewed interest in
software retrieval and software reuse. Not only has there been significant progress in …

Component-based software reuse has long been seen as a means of improving the efficiency
of software development projects and the resulting quality of software systems. However, …

Dedicated software search engines that index open source software repositories or in-house
software assets significantly enhance the chance of finding software components suitable …